2022 MEN’S B1G SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- February 23-26, 2022
- Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center, West Lafayette, IN
- SCY (25 yards)
- Prelims at 10AM Eastern, Finals at 5:30PM Eastern
- Defending Champions: Michigan (2x)
- Championship Central
- Live Results
- Live Stream: DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4
- B1G Men’s Record Book
- 2021 Men’s B1G Champs Results
- Day 2 Prelims Heat Sheet
Day 2 of the 2022 Big Ten Championships kicks off on Thursday morning after an all-relays day on Wednesday.
While relays, barring a DQ, don’t often provide much separation among the top tier of teams, individual events do. Thursday will be teams’ first chance to push for those extra A, B, and C finalists to lock-in points for finals.
Conference meets rarely see their most significant scratches and event choices on the first day of individual events. Thursday comes with only two high-seed revelations.
One is that Purdue senior Nicholas Sherman will swim the 200 IM over the 50 free. He ranks 3rd in the Big Ten this season in the 200 IM and 9th in the 50 free, so the choice wasn’t a difficult one. He is expected to be one of the Boiler Makers’ top contributors this season.
The other is the absence of Wyatt Davis, who also missed the 200 medley relay on Wednesday. The sophomore should have been Michigan’s leadoff leg there, and he was expected to swim the 200 IM on Thursday.
He hasn’t raced since the mid-season Minnesota Invite, where among other swims, he posted a best time in the 100 free (43.88). SwimSwam has reached out to Davis about his absence.
Davis scored 78 points individually for Michigan as a freshman last season, including a 2nd-place finish in the 200 backstroke.
Among the headlines of the day’s racing will be the 50 free, where a pair of Indiana swimmers Rafael Miroslaw and Bruno Blaskovic, both of whom were fast in Wednesday’s relays, will show off with a handful of others who were also sharp Wednesday – like Michigan’s Will Chan and backstroke Olympian Hunter Armstrong, who split 20.45 on the backstroke leg of the Buckeyes’ 200 medley relay.
Racing begins at 10:00 AM Eastern Time.
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Braeden: What are the rules for exhibition? Or where are they? What Changed? Limited number of people. Can you swim exb and later swim where it counts? Score three championship heats? How about letting only 8 swimmers swim…
The number of swimmers who can make finals and score points was brought down from 24 to 18. However, you can still have exhibition swimmers swim in prelims to get official times. Once you are designated an exhibition swimmer you cannot score any points. Some conferences, not sure about the Big 10, also allow scoring swimmers to swim events as exhibition in the morning so they don’t count against their individual event limit. For example, Izzy Ivey tends to exhibition an event on Day 1 or 3 because she does a double on Day 2.
Am I reading it correctly that Michael calvillo is swimming exhibition for IU. I know IU is stacked but that’s still shocking they’d leave someone who has the potential for 3 A finals off the scoring tesm
He’s been walking on deck with a boot and ankle bandages
What happened?????
He’s practicing at Carmel swim club
He’s back at carmel
Can anyone corroborate this statement?
No
Andrew Benson not swimming for Wisconsin? That’s a bigger loss than DQing the relay. Yikes.
Why isn’t he swimming? He went a 43 at the first meet of the season and didn’t race after
He hurt his back
He’s been hurt most of the season, unfortunately.
That’s correct. Hurt himself in the fall, will miss NCAAs too.